Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900 - Couverture souple

Rose, Kenneth D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041581765X ISBN 13 : 9780415817653

Editeur : Routledge, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another.

In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the ‘American character’ continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors.

Including vivid travellers’ tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Kenneth D. Rose teaches history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Myth of the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 041581765X
• ISBN 13: 9780415817653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304